Simply 15 very funny literal translations that are so much more entertaining than the real thing

Translating something from English to another language is all very well, but there’s much more fun to be had if you go for the literal translation, the ‘word for word’ translation which is far more entertaining, if not quite so accurate.

Jules Faria of the Facebook group ‘Monolinguals are the worst’ started a whole thread of them when she said this …

… and the good people of Bored Panda collected the funniest. Here are our 15 favourites.

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